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Лауреат Нобелевской премии Джон Голсуорси хорошо известен в нашей стране как автор знаменитой «Саги о Форсайтах». Однако его перу принадлежат не менее замечательные новеллы, рассказы и маленькие повести, проникнутые юмором, мягкой лиричностью и романтизмом. «Воспоминания» – рассказ из сборника «Гостиница успокоения».

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Charismatic Karl Geary is a talented writer to watch; translation rights for Montpelier Parade have already been sold for 15 languages, and in the U.K., it is Harvill Secker’s lead title for 2017 after a 5-house auction. Geary, an Irish-born American, is well-connected in the New York arts/music scene and visits frequently; he co-founded music venue Sin-é, where performers including Jeff Buckley, Ben Folds, David Gray, and Sinead O’Connor played frequently, and he is co-owner of the Scratcher in NYC’s East Village. Geary is also an actor and screenwriter with connections in the film and music industries. The searing, intimate second-person narrative fits the novel perfectly; the style never feels gimmicky, and instead feels both cinematic and conversational, offering us intimate access to Sonny's thoughts. Montpelier Parade is a dark and atmospheric love story set against a realistic backdrop of working-class family life; the appeal of this novel is as present in the space between sentences as in the writing itself. Much of the genius comes from the words left unsaid by Sonny and his family, pulling the reader into an honest exploration of complex relationship dynamics and communication.

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*2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist*Longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize *Longlisted for the 2019 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award*A Best Book of 2018 —Kirkus Reviews , BuzzFeed News , Entropy , LitReactor , LitHub * 35 Over 35 Award 2018 [/i] *One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall —[i]Vulture , Harper's BAZAAR , BuzzFeed News , Publishers Weekly , The Millions , Bustle , Fast Company It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father, Dennis, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success. The girls, grieving and homesick, are at first wary of their father’s affection, but soon Mae and Edie’s close relationship begins to fall apart—Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother’s downfall, while Mae, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing and destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain, and as the history of Dennis and Marianne’s romantic past clicks into focus, the family fractures further. Moving through a selection of first-person accounts and written with a sinister sense of humor, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can’t, and shouldn’t, have to themselves. In this captivating debut, Katya Apekina disquietingly crooks the lines between fact and fantasy, between escape and freedom, and between love and obsession. "The structure, characters and storyline are all refreshingly original, and the writing is nothing short of gorgeous. It's a stunningly accomplished book, and Apekina isn't afraid to grab her readers by the hand and take them to some very dark and very beautiful places." —Michael Schaub, NPR

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*A Best Book of 2018 — Entropy “Kriseman’s is a new voice to celebrate.” —Publishers Weekly The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voice, featuring a stirringly twisted mother-daughter relationship, set against the sleazy, vividly-drawn backdrop of late-seventies and early-eighties Florida. Callie—who ages from six to eighteen over the course of the book—leads a scattered childhood, moving from cars to strangers’ houses to the sand-dusted apartments of the tourist towns that litter the Florida coastline. Callie’s is a story about what it’s like to grow up too fast and absorb too much, to watch adults behaving badly; what it’s like to be simultaneously in thrall to and terrified of the mother who is the only family you've ever known, who moves you from town to town to leave her own mistakes behind. With precision and poetry, Kriseman's moving tale of a young girl struggling to find her way in the world is potent, and, ultimately, triumphant.

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Miss Iceland (Ungfrú Ísland) published in Iceland in 2018 and won the Icelandic Bookseller's Prize, and was longlisted for the Icelandic Literary Prize, and the Icelandic Women's Prize. Though set in 1960’s Iceland, this novel has an incredibly prescient and timely plot—that of an intellectual young woman trying to realize her dream of being a writer and determined to live on her own terms while being confronted with misogyny, sexism, and harassment. Olafsdottir also tackles issues of gender and sexuality in this novel, with one of the main characters a young gay man struggling to find his place in a homophobic, prejudiced era. Olafsdottir’s writing has been translated widely into twenty-two languages. To date, Miss Iceland will be published internationally in seven countries: France, Italy, Sweden, England, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. Will appeals to fans of Writers & Lovers by Lily King, The Idiot by Elif Batuman[/i], The Wife by Meg Wolitzer, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Hotel Silence won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Icelandic Literature Prize (the equivalent of our National Book Award) and the Booksellers Prize. Butterflies in November won the Tómas Gudmundsson Literary Award and was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times and Independent , and it was widely reviewed in the New York Times , Boston Globe , New Yorker , O Magazine , New York Magazine , and Minneapolis Star Tribune . Olafsdottir’s English debut novel The Greenhouse (AmazonCrossing), sold over 100,000 ebooks; it won the DV Cultural Prize for literature and was nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Prix Femina, and Prix FNAC.

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«Все так говорили. Я далек от утверждения, будто то, что все говорят, непременно правда. Все нередко и ошибаются. Как показывает опыт человечества, эти самые все уже так часто ошибались и порой так не скоро удавалось понять всю глубину их ошибки, что этому авторитету больше не следует доверять. Все могут быть и правы. „Но это не закон“, как говорит призрак Джайлса Скроггинса в известной балладе. Грозное слово „призрак“ будит во мне воспоминания…»

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«– Одета! Не говорите мне, пожалуйста, что эта женщина когда-нибудь одевалась! Она стояла посреди комнаты, а ее айя… нет, ее муж – это, конечно, был мужчина – набрасывал на нее одежду. А она в это время поправляла прическу, запустив пальцы в волосы, и счищала потом пух и пыль со шляпы, которая валялась за кроватью. Для меня это так же ясно, как будто я сама присутствовала при этой оргии. Кто она такая? – закончила вопросом свою речь м-с Хауксби…»

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«Как три мушкетера делят серебро, табак и выпивку, как они защищают друг друга в бараках, в лагере, как все трое веселятся, узнав о радости одного, так и печали у них общие. Когда неудержимый язык Орзириса на целое лето завел его в карцер; когда Леройд потерял свою амуницию и одежду или когда Мельваней под влиянием излишка крепких напитков стал порицать своего офицера, вы могли бы видеть тревогу на лицах остальных двоих…»

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Аудиокниги серии «Читаем на английском языке в оригинале» – это любимые всеми произведения мировых классиков, представленные на языке оригинала. Вы сможете не только по-настоящему «прочувствовать» стиль автора и познакомиться с характерными выражениями и речевыми оборотами, но и повысить свой уровень владения языком. Перед вами всемирно известный роман Оскара Уайльда «Портрет Дориана Грея», который по своей проблематике актуален и в современное время, так как его темы – личность, мораль, предрассудки, ответственность – вечны. © Уайльд Оскар, 2020 © Адапт. текста С.А. Матвеева © & ℗ ООО «Издательство АСТ», «Аудиокнига», 2020 Продюсер аудиозаписи: Татьяна Плюта

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«Во время мятежа в Индии, незадолго до осады Дели, в Пешаваре, на границе Индии, стоял туземный иррегулярный полк. Этот полк был охвачен тем, что Джон Лауренс называл в то время „господствующей манией“, и охотно присоединился бы к мятежникам, если бы это было возможно. Но случая тому не представилось, потому что, когда они спустились к югу, им преградили путь остатки английского корпуса в горах Афганистана, и тут вновь завоёванные племена окружили их, как волки окружают быка…»

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